The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.